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Chapter 6.3, Problem 20E

Flaws in aluminum foil: The number of flaws in a given area of aluminum foil follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of 3 per square meter. Let X represent the number of flaws in a 1-square-meter sample of foil.

P(5)
P(0)
P(Less than 2)
P(Greater than 1)
μ X
σ X

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